Hadi Sirika, the minister of aviation, says the federal government has no intentions to convert Arik Air into a national carrier. Fielding questions from journalists at the end of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, the minister said Arik Air will not be suitable for the carrier that the ministry is planning. Ahmed Kuru, the managing director of the Assets [...]
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Ahmed Kuru, managing director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), has asked the federal government to convert Arik Air to a national carrier. Jude Nwauzor, AMCON spokesman, quoted Kuru to have said this on Monday when he appeared before the senate committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions. AMCON had taken over the airline in February 2017 owing to its [...]
Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, says the Nigeria Air project is not lacking investors. He said institutions and airlines such as the African Development Bank (AfDB), AFREXIM, US-EXIM, Standard Chartered Bank, Boeing, Airbus and China-Exim Bank are some of the interested partners. The minister said the project followed due process and is currently at procurement stage awaiting approval of the [...]
Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, says the embargo placed on Nigeria Air, the national carrier, will be lifted as soon as possible. According to James Daudu, the ministry’s deputy director of media and public affairs, Sirika said this while receiving Fahad Al Taffaq, United Arab Emirates (UAE) ambassador to Nigeria, in Abuja on Monday. He quoted the minister as saying [...]
Allen Onyema, the chief executive officer of Air Peace, says government policies are the reasons Nigerian airlines are not working well. The Air Peace boss commended President Muhammadu Buhari on the federal executive council's decision to suspend the national carrier project saying other countries are running from owning a national carrier. "There is this talk that domestic airlines are not doing well. [...]
Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, says it is untrue that the Nigeria Air project was suspended over lack of investors. In a statement issued on his behalf d by James Odaudu, deputy director, media and public affairs, ministry of transportation, Sirika said a number of “well-grounded” investors were ready to key into the project. The minister's comment contradicts that of [...]
The federal government says it suspended the national carrier project due to investor apathy. Addressing journalists on Monday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, explained that investors who were supposed to partner with the government on the project were no longer forthcoming. It was recently announced that Nigeria Air, which was supposed to [...]
To start with, we cannot truly move forward as a nation until we start putting politics where it belongs, asking critical questions that will take us out of the current woods we have found ourselves. Each time we allow politics to block our collective reasoning; it sets us backward as a people. Our bane in Nigeria is the version of [...]
The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has commended the federal government for taking the step to suspend the national carrier project. On Wednesday, Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, announced that the federal government had decided to suspend the national carrier project indefinitely. In a statement on Thursday, Nogie Meggisson, chairman of AON, said the move was in response to the operators [...]
Nigeria Air was still-birthed because it was never meant to reach parturition in the first place. It was a grand scam. A cash-out for the boys; though I fell for it. When Hadi Siriki, minister of aviation, displayed a nondescript logo announcing that Nigeria Air would launch in December, I became seized by national fervour. In my rapture, I praised the [...]
On Wednesday, Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, announced that the federal government had directed indefinite suspension of Nigeria Air, the national carrier project. Sirika had unveiled the name and logo of the carrier at an airshow in London, in July. He had added that government was in talks with aircraft providers ahead of the take-off of the project. “We’ve been talking to [...]
The federal government has suspended the national carrier project indefinitely. Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, made this known on Wednesday. "I regret to announce that the Federal Executive Council has taken the tough decision to suspend the National Carrier Project in the interim. All commitments due will be honoured. We thank the public for the support as always," he wrote [...]
Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, says the claim by Tewolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian Airlines’ CEO, of being favourite to manage Nigeria Air is fake. He made this known through James Odaudu, the ministry's deputy director, media and public affairs, on Tuesday. The Ethiopian Airline boss had said his company is the frontrunner in the bids while addressing a press conference in [...]
Tewolde Gebremariam, the chief executive officer of Ethiopian Airlines, says his company is the frontrunner in the bidding process for the management of Nigeria Air. Speaking at a news conference in Addis Ababa on Friday, Gebremariam said the group of investors interested in establishing the national carrier is small. "We are among a small group with an interest in establishing a national [...]
Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, says Nigeria Airways died because of governance and finance issues. Speaking on Thursday at the 47th convocation of the Air Force Institute of Technology in Kaduna, Sirika said the case of the newly-unveiled Nigeria Air will be different. "The ownership is different. It is different because it is private sector-driven," he said. "Government will own a [...]
I write for a generation that never flew Nigeria Airways, Virgin Nigeria nor Air Nigeria -- and possibly will never fly Nigeria Air. A generation that has seen Nigeria let her down too many times, yet has done so much in keeping the country up. That generation, that has resolved and refused to pass a broken Nigeria to her own children. [...]
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